Joseph Thomas DEAL

(1860-1942)

DEAL, Joseph Thomas, a
Representative from Virginia; born near Surry, Va., November 19,
1860; attended the public schools; was graduated from Virginia
Military Institute at Lexington in 1882; engaged in civil
engineering and lumber manufacturing in Surry County in 1883; moved
to Norfolk, Va., in 1891; chairman of the Improvement Board of
Norfolk 1905-1910; delegate to the Democratic National Convention
in 1908; member of the State house of delegates 1910-1912; served
in the State senate in 1919; elected as a Democrat to the
Sixty-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1921-March 3, 1929); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection
in 1928 to the Seventy-first Congress; resumed his activities in
the lumber business until his death in Norfolk, Va., on March 7,
1942; interment in Forest Lawn Cemetery.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present